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Chicago examiner wednesday december 8 1909 40 pages vol vii no 302 a m price one cent ?Â« u j ea ** cjj ll " 1 30 cents per month federal mediators called on insuring peace for 347,000 railroad men fliinois central and telegra phers summon knapp and neill to Chicago other unions to follow strikes barbaric says workers committee last cloud leaves horizon i , the first steps for an amicable settle ment of grievances between all railroads and their employes were taken yesterday when Illinois central officers proposed to the order of railroad telegraphers to submit their controversy to mediation un der the erdmnn act this was accepted hairman knapp of the interstate com i merce commissbn and commissioner of labor neill were requested last night in a joint telegram by the telegraphers and i Illinois central officials to come to chl-j cago as soon as possible to endeavor to adjust the trouble chairman knapp said j in washington last night that he and commissioner neill would probably be in Chicago this week the telegraphers asked for an increase in wages and the right to make schedules for telephone operators who are rapidly taking the places of telegraphers no agreement had been reached and al though a strike vote had been taken by the telegraphers they decided that media tion was better than striking strikes barbaric say union leaders in making this statement members of ihe union committee said mediation usually has to do with actual grievances a strike is barbaric because its result depends upon which side is the strongest this decision of the telegraphers who were among the railroad employes instru mental in having the erdman act passed by congress will undoubtedly be followed in other cases notably that of the controversy with the big pour this trouble is said to be reaching a crisis that will end in mediation there are also committees of leis^raph'ji-s in Ã¼be city seeking new wage nhedules with tho rock island north western and Chicago milwaukee & st paul roads both railroad officials and employes ap peared confident after the announcement was made that the telegrapher's would ieave their controversies to mediation under the erdman act that all future wage dis putes with railroad employes would take the same course in the event of disagree ments the action of the telegraphers on the i Illinois central had the approval of the national officers of the order of railroad telegraphers and . promises an amicable settlement of the wage disputes between nil railroads and employes in the country outside of the strike in the northwest ] the order of railroad telegraphers has 110,000 members 347.000 men favor peace these added to the 257.000 in the other organizations that have repudiated all strike talk makes 347,000 organized rail road employes that believe in mediation in preference to strikes according to 0 l dickeson official j spokesman for the general managers as sociation ilie strike in the northwest is ranging no more concern the increased number of switchmen re turning to work indicates that the men disapproved of the haste of their leaders in calling a strike in the face of a probable satisfactory adjustment said mr dicke son they also appreciate the action of the railroads in holding places open and giving them an opportunity to reconsider even when plenty of other switchmen were ready to fill the vacancies that the sympathy of a great number of striking switchmen has been with the railroads is best indicated by the orderly and peaceful manner in which the men have conducted themselves there having been no violence or destruction of prop erty which stands to the crebit of the men telegram to Taft a clincher ihe telegram of president w g lee of the brotherhood of railroad trainmen to president Taft stopped all talk of strikes f railroad employes arrangements are being made for confer ences between the committee of the switch men's union of america and the general managers it may take several days to set the date for the conferences to begin as the officials of all roads entering chi cago buffalo kansas city st louis and itber switching centers where schedules have been presented must first give their l-onsent to the negotiations in writing a committee also will be appointed in a few days by the general managers to meet be locomotive firemen who have presented p new schedule for forty-two western roads just when the conferences with the switchmen who are members of the brotherhood of railroad trainmen will be gin is uncertain international president w d mahon of the street car men obtained concessions from the aurora elgin & Chicago electric cailroad yesterday which will probably fettle all existing differences the em ployes asserted that the wage schedules bad been changed in violation of the union agreement president faber of the com pany met the union committee and made john drew is badly hurt actor thrown from horse leaves 2,000,000 for war oh cancer george crocker who with wife was vicrtimr.estab â€¢' \ lishes research fund new york dee 7 george crocker ' the _ california , millionaire who died here last saturday has left a fund of more than 2,000,000 to provide the sinews ot a ! seleutiiic war on cancer mr crocker his jwife and his physician ' the late dr wil liam t bull were all the victims of that malady and it was one of the cherished works of the millionaire to contribute an â€¢ amount sufficient to enable competent ex ' perls to seek some explanation and cure i lor this medical enigma , in his will a portion of which was made public here to-day george crocker makes the following bequest : â– i order and direct my executors herein after named to sol my land corner of sixty-fourth street ami fifth avenue in the borough of manhattan city of new j york together with the house thereon known as 1 east sixty-fourth street and the contents thereof as well as all my real estate at darlington in the county of bergen statr of new jersey together ] with the houses thereon and the contents i thereof and the horses cuttle and other ! personal property connected therewith special research fund the same is to be converted into money and the net proceeds thereof paid to the trustees of columbia college in the city of new york to be held by such trustees and invested as a permanent fund to be known as the george crocker special re search fund the income of which shall be applied in such manner as said trustees may from time to time determine in the prosecution of researches as to the cause prevention and cure of cancer should the progress of science at any time make the prosecution of further re searches in regard to cancer unnecessary then the income of said fund may be used as said trustees may from time to tlmo determine in the prosecution of other re searches in medicine and surgery and in the sciences allied thereto with a view of preventing and curing diseases and of al leviating human suffering provided however that no part of the principal or income of this fund shall be at any time used for the erection of a building this clause in mr crocker's will was the only one that was made public to-day executors are named the executors are john hays hammond e c bradley of the pacific states tele phone & telegraph company m , thrall for many years mr crocker's confidential secretary and eugene d hawkins mr crocker's personal attorney in addition to several specific bequests and money legacies mr crocker be queathed 25,000 to lee his faithful chi nese valet who was in his personal service for twenty years all the other employes of the millionaire were remembered with legacies which vary in accordance with their length of service the children of his wife by her former husband are given substantial lega cies the residue of his estate ls divided among his immediate blood relatives it is believed the estate will total between 12,000,000 and 15,000,000 one of the striking traits of george crocker was the secretiveness he main tained concerning all of his affairs in gen eral and his charities in particular john hays haniinoud the california mil lionaire mining man who was one of crocker's closest friends to-day disclosed the little known fact that george crocker was one of the principal backers of com mander peary's recent expedition to the north pole and that he contributed 50,000 in cash toward fitting out peary's expedi tion dragged to safety by daugh ter good health makes recovery siu-6 si ~ * * m:w y'ork dec 7.â€”j â– â– " die he actor who came a nasty croppar it i a spirited horse on the central pajrk bridle path to-day was oil the mad to to ooycry in the presbyterian ' hospital to night by reason of his excellent physical condition a dislocated collarbone scratches and bruises was the sum of bis injuries anil the physicians attending him predicted o uight he might be out iu a few days a rather lucky escape and a quick recovery from a painful and somewhat serious ac cident for his escape from more serious hurts mr drew must return thanks to his daughter ethel who accompanied her father on the ride and quickly dragged him out of range of the flying jieels of the struggling horse on the ground beside him mr lrew.owes thanks to his own well ordered life and physical regime which has made his perennial youth a marvel to the public and his fellow actors who have worked not so hard nor so long upon tue stage as mr drew for years it has been mr drew's unfaib ing custom to retire nt 1 o'clock in the morning the exceptions have been too rare to count even though the observance of the rule frequently has been accom plished with diplomacy or under trying conditions of travel and hotel accommoda tions he rises at 7 o'clock and after dressing and drinking a cup of tea goes for a two hours ride in the park or upon the drives in any city in which he may find himself returning mr drew has his bath his breakfast and then attends to bis corre spondence the study of new parts or re hearsal taking his luncheon at a negular hour each day at 5 o'clock he lies down for a nap until a quarter to seven then eats a light meal and starts for the the ater mr drew left his home at 40 west forty-fifth street shortly after 7 o'clock this morning for a gallop in central park his daughter accompanying him he was mounted on a thoroughbred the gift of george jay gould accounted a sure footed animal and his daughter on a pony they had been riding for upward of an hour and were swinging down the bridge path when mr drew's horse stepped into a soft spot in the path and turned a com plete somersault falling within a few feet of mr drew who had been thrown over his mount's head mr drew was ren dered unconscious and lay helpless almost in reach of the hoofs of the fallen horse which was wildly scrambling to regain its feet miss drew leaped from her horse and dragged her father from danger a mount ed policeman caught mr drew's horse and drew it away miss drew knelt be side her father until an autoist who wit nessed the accident drove up and took the actor to the hospital schurz park is planned wisconsin society of new yorlt bays old home nt watertovrn new york dec 7 the wisconsin so ciety of new york has decided to purchase the first american home of carl schurz in watertown wis and turn it into a public park an announcement to that effect was made to-night at the society's din ner at the hotel astor by henry j davis the presiding officer carl seliurz jr has given bis entire approval to thejplan and was made an honorarv member of the wisconsin society of new york flat fire in col d ruins dozen homes reinholt apartments on wi nona street damaged to extent of 10,000 firemen hindered by ice nest just finished by young bridal couple consumed be fore being occupied half a hundred persons were driven into the freezing air and a dozen families were made homeless by a fire which early last j evening all but destroyed the reinholt apartment building 110m to 1107 winona street doing damage to the extent of 10 000 fanned by a high wind the flames leaped from floor to floor with such rapid ity that many of the occupants barely es caped with their lives none was able to carry any of his per sonal belongings om of the blazing struc ture a bridal couple whose first home was to have been the apartment on the second floor at 1107 winona street were driven from the building by the flames although none of the occupants of the reinholt knew tue'n they bad been seen day after day carrying triic -â– 'â– i 0 the flat i into which a load of fur . e was put a ! week ago they had gone to tht losycnive home last night to apply the uishiug touches to the work of furnishing their neat when they should become man and wife later in the week sobbiugly the young woman al lowed herself to be led to the street where she and her future husband watched the undoing of their weeks of preparation the identity of the couple could not be learned j last night members of families whose all was rep resented by their household eitecls siood half freezing in the streets until kind hearted neighbors forced them to seek shelter list of su/ferers several persons who sought to re-enter the building to rescue cherished belongings ' during the early stages of the lire were ! restrained by the police and firemen fol lowing is a list of families routed by the flames lloy winona street nelson marklund first iioor frank boyle second floor claude h johnson third floor 1105 winona strpet w h maupin first floor c h knapp second flour e jv thbbs lili;d flodr 1 faff winona street t j ncidoiy first floor l t meade third floor 5060 winthrop avenue charles smith first floor s t hurl on second tlbor d j muchmore floor 5002 winthrop avenue c r steward first floor charles a russell second floor mrs m barrett third floor the winthrop avenue building adjoins the reinholt apartments on the east al though a fire wall prevented tlie flames from being communicated to the former ' its contents suffered heavily from smoke | and water great sheets of ice formed j on the exterior of the buildings hamper ing th work of the firemen and render j ing their task doubly dangerous family loses all i lo.^t everything mournfully an ! nounced l j meade secretary for the i great southern lumber company as be peered into his fire-wrecked flat above the one to have been the home of the bridal couple this was our second attempt at house keeping two years ag<s i sold our little stock of furniture and invested the nionev in a venture out west it failed and left us with nothing then i got to work and saved up 600 enough to decently fit up this flat i haven't a cent of iusuranee the in surance man promised to come with my policy yesterday but he failed to appear and i'm the loser the are was discovered by frank roes cleln son of charles roesdein janitor of the reinholt apartments the janitor and his family were at dinner in their rooms in the basement when the son detected the odor of smoke hurrying fo the front of the building he found the place filled with flames the boy and policeman joseph m car roll of the summerdale station rushed through the building warning the occu pants to flee crossed electric wires are believed to have caused the fire mrs elsie saltus dead daughter of former minister to st lames snccnmhs 1.0.s angeles dec 7.-elsie welsh saltus wife of edgar salius died in paris of pneumonia two days ago mrs saltus was a daughter of the late samuel welsh of philadelphia at one time uni.Â»d states minister to the court of st james her marriage to mr saltus took place in paris at the british embassy twelve years ago czar cousin rules finns grand duke irliolns named gover nor by emperor st petersburg russia dec 7 grand duke nicholas nicholajevitch second cousin of the emperor was to-day designated to take full and direct charge of afiairs in finland major-general zeln the present acting governor general of the grand duchy will be under his control miss asquith answers watson sought knighthood and a literary pension blames us for his failure poet in Chicago next month .. special cable to the examiner iy onbox dsa 7 â€” miss violet [ asquiih daughter or the i premier was at luncheon to-day in the savoy with lord esher when asked to give an expression of her views on the statements made in new york by william watson the poet miss asquith said she would not care to dignify mr watson by replying to his statements she attributes his action to the fact that he had used all his influence to gain knight hood and had made her father's life miserable with his persistent demands miss asquith said watson had asked for a large literary pension and expected the announcement of his knighthood would be made on the king's last birthday almost a year ago when it didn't come she said he became peevish and blamed her mother and herself for not appreciating his greatness the premier's daughter thinks the poet is a thorough cad who has taken this means to get even it is known that her view is that though he is ambitious to be knowu as a poet of passion he is really merely a poet of pretension : miss asquith was requested to make a full statement of her side of the controversy but she firmly deel ined to speak further for publication new york dec 7 william watson j the english poet whose establish j ment of the identity of the com j ! posite heroine of his now famous poem ' the woman with the serpent's tongue ! has raised an international teapot tempest ' to-day accepted the invitation of the i twentieth century club of Chicago to ad i dress that organization in accepting the | invitation mr watson has fixed no exact date his acceptance specifying only that his appearance before the Chicago club will be made during the second or third week iu january mr wat.sun who is suffering from a sore throat denied himself to callers to-day to the examiner correspondent mrs watson the pretty irish bride of the poet bald to-night that her husbaud has sent his acceptance of the twentieth century club's invitation ahd'sald they both looked forwavd plfessurahly to the city which mrs watsw said she hid heard so much about â– mrs watson said she and her husband had made no definite plans for a stay in Chicago she said she did not expect they would remain there longer than a few ilttys before returning to the tist prior to their departure for europe london dec 7 john lane who pub lished the volume of william watson's poems which has had such a sale re cently announced to-night that iu all sub sequent editions of the volume the woman with the serpent's tongue will be omitted on account of the notoriety ot the poem watson's latest book had a large sale so long as the identity of the avoruan with the serpent's tongue remained a mutter of guesswork the publisher used the mystery for all it was worth in ad vertising the book but now that watson has indicated who was meant mr lane says he does not care to assume the re sponsibility friends and admirers of premier asquith have suggested to that statesmen that he institute a suit for libel bur he refuses to take any action himself or allow any of his ifamlly to do so new york - dec 7 mr watson said i to-night the withdrawal of the poem was | without his authority and that be would i not allow it either in this cuhntry or in england without contesting such action i of the publisher in the courts mr watson will call upon joseph 11 choate former ambassador to the court i of st james to-morrow and will consult | him concerning the proper action to take miss y'iolet astfuuli athlete is caught stealing in y m . c a boy takes marked 5 bih from gymnasium and admits guilt the deletion of the seventeen-year-old athlete sou of wealthy parents in the act of stealing a marked !?."> bill from the pocket of a vest in an evanston y m c a gymnasium locker last night cieared up the mystery of a series of money thefts which have agitated the y m c a members at frequent intervals during the last three months the youth was caught by means of a ruse executed by arthur b dale general secretary of the evanston y m c a mr dale refuses however to reveal the name of the culprit lie says there will be no arrest and no expulsion from the as sociation but that the young man volun tarily has placed himself on probation the purloining of pocket change began early in the autumn it kept up with annoying regularity the lockers have no keys but comblnalion locks on ac count of the time and trouble necessary to unlock them it has been the custom of members while exercising in gymnasium costumes to leave their lockers in which their street clothes hang standing open this gave the thief his opportunity secretary dale after reports began grow ing more and more frequent did a little inductive reasoning he says among the regular attendants at the gymnasium was a youth who was exceedingly fond of pool but being a high school student and de pendent on bis father's generosity for money the boy until recently did not have much cash lately he has had abundant small change this fact says mr dale together with a boast the youth made that be was an expert at picking locks aroused the secre tary's suspicions mr dale gave a marked 5 bill to herman johnson last night johnson went into the locker room at a time when the rnspect was present he ostentatiously changed the marked bill from one pocket to another the youth under suspicion observed him johnson donned gymnasium clothes and went in to exercise secluded behind a set of lockers where he could see bnt could not be seen mr dale kept watch on the locker where johnson's clothes hung in . a few minutes 4 he saw a youth put his hand into the vest pocket where the money was mr dale seized the boy the voung man clutched the bill with the telltale pen mark on it he made no resistance and no denial but confessed everything a record has been kept of the thefts re ported they total 55 mr dale went at once to the home of the young ill-doer and talked with his mother she agreed 16 hand over to mr dale this morning a sum sufficient to reimburse all the victims 20th gentury mob forces quick time captures man and waits while he is indicted and sentenced to die wii.i.iamstown ky ue 7 perhaps the ui{st unique and most orderly mob iu ' the history of kentucky was formed here j this morning and this afternoon it accom j plished its end inside of twenty minutes i one week ago mrs maggie roberts living near dryridge north of this city was 1 killed by a negro all proofs showed lhai earl thompson committed the crime the officials of the county were unable to find him then the mob was formed five hundred men band ed together and divided into four com panies each with a captain and two lieu tenants over these four companies there ruled one of the most prominent merchants in this part of the state shortly before noon they found thomp son linen the leaders turned him over to sheriff michael carter and his deputies telling them that they wanted him tried and sentenced immediately thompson was brought to the jail here and afterward taken to the courthouse for trial the mob accompanied him the judge came out and announced to the crowd from the steps of the courthouse that their man bad been indicted then the leaders told the judge the prisoner would have to be tried immediately within eight minutes the judge came back and told them thompson had been found guilty and sentenced to die then they demanded that he fix the date the judge suggested that january 7 would be a good time to hang him the mob as sented the leaders told the 500 men to right about face forward march and the mob dispersed whether or not thompson pieaded guilty is not known but the mob lenders were satisfied with knowing that . sentence had been passed they will hold the judge ac countable to see that the sentence is car ried out there is no indication to-night that it won't be finds his third comet voiuis astronomer say it can be seen through small telescope new york dec 7 zaeeheus daniel of tho class of 1908 princeton now thaw fellow in astronomy discovered a comet on monday night arid to-day telegraphed the news to the harvard observatory at cambridge this is the third comet sir daniel has discovered the other two bfr ing known as the daniel comet of june 1907 and the daniel comet of june 1909 the new comet is moving slowly almost directly ' north and is visible at nijbt through a three-inch telescope â€¢ â€¢ crucial battle in nicaragua result is in doubt one dispatch says estrada army killed 100 and cap tured 100 another gives government victory senator rayner will ask con gress to order zelaya brought to united states and tried as a slayer i i claims state department can exercise police power ovei central america by virtue of the monroe doctrine conflicting dispatches from cen tral america points on the most decisive battle of the revolution â– . ary war in nicaragua the battle was fought near rama one story credits the estrada army with routing the zelaya forces and cap turing many prisoners the other says the zelaya army won a deci sive victory both dispatches ars given port limox costa rica dec 7 a wireless message received here reports an engagement above rama between the forces of general estrada and zelay.i's army under vasquez in which the lattei was beaten leaving mac than 100 deac and wounded on the battlerleld estrada is said to have captured 100 prisoners and a lot of cannon and ammunition i the launch eagle which left here on j riunduy with thirty-live volunteers tc>r the m estrada army arrived safely at bliehelds i it ls said that the launch having i en re-j j fused a clearance j?i'.-u.ed up h.er atxaspavi j and left this port without it i a passenger from colorado eligio slb j uja states that zelnj!a"s troops entered the aragon farm where the costa ricaij i flag was flying and committed many out i rages â– . Â„ i dead float down river j about 200 dead bodies floated down tha i river after the battle of san juan del i norte it is officially announced that i chamorra b>st in the battle at san juan i twenty-one men killed and thirty-out wounded toledo has bad to withdraw his forces to a safe point some distance from ' the town on account of the heavy fire ! kept up by cbamorra's ships general castillo cbarnorra who was killed in the recent battle is a brother of the lead ing general emilia chaniorra who ls now blockading san juan del norte the gen eral's body was carried to managua by order of zelaya Â„ the government party in nicaragua iron latest ad vices appears to be in a bad way with toledo bottled up at greytown vas ! quez beaten by forno dlas above rama and the weather completely stopping him ' from making any further march it is . confidently expected that as soon as gen i eral t.'hamorrn receives the shipment of i arms looked for daily the revolutionists \ will lake hut a short time to overcome th | government forces it is reported that zelaya telegraphed i the mexican minister in san juan his da ! sire to resign and take up his residence in belgium it is also stated that ordera hava been sent to toledo and vasquez by zelaya to suspend operations until further advices states zelaya is victor new orleans la dec 7 a dl patch from managua via wireless to port i lliuon costa rica received here to-day says that general vasquez heading a part of belaya's forces has won a decided vic tory in an engagement north of rama 1 two were killed the dispatch says the righting is reported as being hand-to-hand a weekly newspaper published at man gua nicaragua dated nov 19 has just been received here containing a report of a the execution of cannon and groce tbajfl two americans by president zelaya th paper asserts that both the americans were caught in the act of trying to blolh up the steamer diamante and that thejh exploded a mine fifteen yards in front offl the vessel it says that when the men were cap 1 tured they had in their possession dyna mite fuses and machines for causing th explosions and that after a trial at fort el castillo they confessed to having s*t the mine and were shot outside the fort may try zelaya in united states i washington d c dec 7 senator rayner of maryland an authority on cod stitutional law in a few days will intro duce in the senate a joint resolution au thorizing president Taft to take all naceav sary steps for the apprehension of zelaya of nicaragua and for bringing him to trial for the killing of the two americans who were in the revolutionary army of general estrada under the terms of the proposed resolution zelaya may even be aoprehendsd and brought to the united states for trttl senator ravner will treat the killing ot cannon and groce as an international of fense constituting the crime of murder under the code of military warfare as recognized among ivillzed nations tliejcirowing of zelaya iato an american continued on 2d page 2d column f the weather m f\v3 Chicago and vicinity fair and 3\4 \ 5 continued cold wednesday and j t to thursday brisk northwest winds lw jpjj diminishing iff i fl christmas suggestion if im presents of a practical and valuable f\y f r kind â€” real estate birds or animais t y v 1 an automobile see the 1 â– / ' iff examiner tuam jlds jg the text of president taft's message will be pound on page 4

Chicago examiner wednesday december 8 1909 40 pages vol vii no 302 a m price one cent ?Â« u j ea ** cjj ll " 1 30 cents per month federal mediators called on insuring peace for 347,000 railroad men fliinois central and telegra phers summon knapp and neill to Chicago other unions to follow strikes barbaric says workers committee last cloud leaves horizon i , the first steps for an amicable settle ment of grievances between all railroads and their employes were taken yesterday when Illinois central officers proposed to the order of railroad telegraphers to submit their controversy to mediation un der the erdmnn act this was accepted hairman knapp of the interstate com i merce commissbn and commissioner of labor neill were requested last night in a joint telegram by the telegraphers and i Illinois central officials to come to chl-j cago as soon as possible to endeavor to adjust the trouble chairman knapp said j in washington last night that he and commissioner neill would probably be in Chicago this week the telegraphers asked for an increase in wages and the right to make schedules for telephone operators who are rapidly taking the places of telegraphers no agreement had been reached and al though a strike vote had been taken by the telegraphers they decided that media tion was better than striking strikes barbaric say union leaders in making this statement members of ihe union committee said mediation usually has to do with actual grievances a strike is barbaric because its result depends upon which side is the strongest this decision of the telegraphers who were among the railroad employes instru mental in having the erdman act passed by congress will undoubtedly be followed in other cases notably that of the controversy with the big pour this trouble is said to be reaching a crisis that will end in mediation there are also committees of leis^raph'ji-s in Ã¼be city seeking new wage nhedules with tho rock island north western and Chicago milwaukee & st paul roads both railroad officials and employes ap peared confident after the announcement was made that the telegrapher's would ieave their controversies to mediation under the erdman act that all future wage dis putes with railroad employes would take the same course in the event of disagree ments the action of the telegraphers on the i Illinois central had the approval of the national officers of the order of railroad telegraphers and . promises an amicable settlement of the wage disputes between nil railroads and employes in the country outside of the strike in the northwest ] the order of railroad telegraphers has 110,000 members 347.000 men favor peace these added to the 257.000 in the other organizations that have repudiated all strike talk makes 347,000 organized rail road employes that believe in mediation in preference to strikes according to 0 l dickeson official j spokesman for the general managers as sociation ilie strike in the northwest is ranging no more concern the increased number of switchmen re turning to work indicates that the men disapproved of the haste of their leaders in calling a strike in the face of a probable satisfactory adjustment said mr dicke son they also appreciate the action of the railroads in holding places open and giving them an opportunity to reconsider even when plenty of other switchmen were ready to fill the vacancies that the sympathy of a great number of striking switchmen has been with the railroads is best indicated by the orderly and peaceful manner in which the men have conducted themselves there having been no violence or destruction of prop erty which stands to the crebit of the men telegram to Taft a clincher ihe telegram of president w g lee of the brotherhood of railroad trainmen to president Taft stopped all talk of strikes f railroad employes arrangements are being made for confer ences between the committee of the switch men's union of america and the general managers it may take several days to set the date for the conferences to begin as the officials of all roads entering chi cago buffalo kansas city st louis and itber switching centers where schedules have been presented must first give their l-onsent to the negotiations in writing a committee also will be appointed in a few days by the general managers to meet be locomotive firemen who have presented p new schedule for forty-two western roads just when the conferences with the switchmen who are members of the brotherhood of railroad trainmen will be gin is uncertain international president w d mahon of the street car men obtained concessions from the aurora elgin & Chicago electric cailroad yesterday which will probably fettle all existing differences the em ployes asserted that the wage schedules bad been changed in violation of the union agreement president faber of the com pany met the union committee and made john drew is badly hurt actor thrown from horse leaves 2,000,000 for war oh cancer george crocker who with wife was vicrtimr.estab â€¢' \ lishes research fund new york dee 7 george crocker ' the _ california , millionaire who died here last saturday has left a fund of more than 2,000,000 to provide the sinews ot a ! seleutiiic war on cancer mr crocker his jwife and his physician ' the late dr wil liam t bull were all the victims of that malady and it was one of the cherished works of the millionaire to contribute an â€¢ amount sufficient to enable competent ex ' perls to seek some explanation and cure i lor this medical enigma , in his will a portion of which was made public here to-day george crocker makes the following bequest : â– i order and direct my executors herein after named to sol my land corner of sixty-fourth street ami fifth avenue in the borough of manhattan city of new j york together with the house thereon known as 1 east sixty-fourth street and the contents thereof as well as all my real estate at darlington in the county of bergen statr of new jersey together ] with the houses thereon and the contents i thereof and the horses cuttle and other ! personal property connected therewith special research fund the same is to be converted into money and the net proceeds thereof paid to the trustees of columbia college in the city of new york to be held by such trustees and invested as a permanent fund to be known as the george crocker special re search fund the income of which shall be applied in such manner as said trustees may from time to time determine in the prosecution of researches as to the cause prevention and cure of cancer should the progress of science at any time make the prosecution of further re searches in regard to cancer unnecessary then the income of said fund may be used as said trustees may from time to tlmo determine in the prosecution of other re searches in medicine and surgery and in the sciences allied thereto with a view of preventing and curing diseases and of al leviating human suffering provided however that no part of the principal or income of this fund shall be at any time used for the erection of a building this clause in mr crocker's will was the only one that was made public to-day executors are named the executors are john hays hammond e c bradley of the pacific states tele phone & telegraph company m , thrall for many years mr crocker's confidential secretary and eugene d hawkins mr crocker's personal attorney in addition to several specific bequests and money legacies mr crocker be queathed 25,000 to lee his faithful chi nese valet who was in his personal service for twenty years all the other employes of the millionaire were remembered with legacies which vary in accordance with their length of service the children of his wife by her former husband are given substantial lega cies the residue of his estate ls divided among his immediate blood relatives it is believed the estate will total between 12,000,000 and 15,000,000 one of the striking traits of george crocker was the secretiveness he main tained concerning all of his affairs in gen eral and his charities in particular john hays haniinoud the california mil lionaire mining man who was one of crocker's closest friends to-day disclosed the little known fact that george crocker was one of the principal backers of com mander peary's recent expedition to the north pole and that he contributed 50,000 in cash toward fitting out peary's expedi tion dragged to safety by daugh ter good health makes recovery siu-6 si ~ * * m:w y'ork dec 7.â€”j â– â– " die he actor who came a nasty croppar it i a spirited horse on the central pajrk bridle path to-day was oil the mad to to ooycry in the presbyterian ' hospital to night by reason of his excellent physical condition a dislocated collarbone scratches and bruises was the sum of bis injuries anil the physicians attending him predicted o uight he might be out iu a few days a rather lucky escape and a quick recovery from a painful and somewhat serious ac cident for his escape from more serious hurts mr drew must return thanks to his daughter ethel who accompanied her father on the ride and quickly dragged him out of range of the flying jieels of the struggling horse on the ground beside him mr lrew.owes thanks to his own well ordered life and physical regime which has made his perennial youth a marvel to the public and his fellow actors who have worked not so hard nor so long upon tue stage as mr drew for years it has been mr drew's unfaib ing custom to retire nt 1 o'clock in the morning the exceptions have been too rare to count even though the observance of the rule frequently has been accom plished with diplomacy or under trying conditions of travel and hotel accommoda tions he rises at 7 o'clock and after dressing and drinking a cup of tea goes for a two hours ride in the park or upon the drives in any city in which he may find himself returning mr drew has his bath his breakfast and then attends to bis corre spondence the study of new parts or re hearsal taking his luncheon at a negular hour each day at 5 o'clock he lies down for a nap until a quarter to seven then eats a light meal and starts for the the ater mr drew left his home at 40 west forty-fifth street shortly after 7 o'clock this morning for a gallop in central park his daughter accompanying him he was mounted on a thoroughbred the gift of george jay gould accounted a sure footed animal and his daughter on a pony they had been riding for upward of an hour and were swinging down the bridge path when mr drew's horse stepped into a soft spot in the path and turned a com plete somersault falling within a few feet of mr drew who had been thrown over his mount's head mr drew was ren dered unconscious and lay helpless almost in reach of the hoofs of the fallen horse which was wildly scrambling to regain its feet miss drew leaped from her horse and dragged her father from danger a mount ed policeman caught mr drew's horse and drew it away miss drew knelt be side her father until an autoist who wit nessed the accident drove up and took the actor to the hospital schurz park is planned wisconsin society of new yorlt bays old home nt watertovrn new york dec 7 the wisconsin so ciety of new york has decided to purchase the first american home of carl schurz in watertown wis and turn it into a public park an announcement to that effect was made to-night at the society's din ner at the hotel astor by henry j davis the presiding officer carl seliurz jr has given bis entire approval to thejplan and was made an honorarv member of the wisconsin society of new york flat fire in col d ruins dozen homes reinholt apartments on wi nona street damaged to extent of 10,000 firemen hindered by ice nest just finished by young bridal couple consumed be fore being occupied half a hundred persons were driven into the freezing air and a dozen families were made homeless by a fire which early last j evening all but destroyed the reinholt apartment building 110m to 1107 winona street doing damage to the extent of 10 000 fanned by a high wind the flames leaped from floor to floor with such rapid ity that many of the occupants barely es caped with their lives none was able to carry any of his per sonal belongings om of the blazing struc ture a bridal couple whose first home was to have been the apartment on the second floor at 1107 winona street were driven from the building by the flames although none of the occupants of the reinholt knew tue'n they bad been seen day after day carrying triic -â– 'â– i 0 the flat i into which a load of fur . e was put a ! week ago they had gone to tht losycnive home last night to apply the uishiug touches to the work of furnishing their neat when they should become man and wife later in the week sobbiugly the young woman al lowed herself to be led to the street where she and her future husband watched the undoing of their weeks of preparation the identity of the couple could not be learned j last night members of families whose all was rep resented by their household eitecls siood half freezing in the streets until kind hearted neighbors forced them to seek shelter list of su/ferers several persons who sought to re-enter the building to rescue cherished belongings ' during the early stages of the lire were ! restrained by the police and firemen fol lowing is a list of families routed by the flames lloy winona street nelson marklund first iioor frank boyle second floor claude h johnson third floor 1105 winona strpet w h maupin first floor c h knapp second flour e jv thbbs lili;d flodr 1 faff winona street t j ncidoiy first floor l t meade third floor 5060 winthrop avenue charles smith first floor s t hurl on second tlbor d j muchmore floor 5002 winthrop avenue c r steward first floor charles a russell second floor mrs m barrett third floor the winthrop avenue building adjoins the reinholt apartments on the east al though a fire wall prevented tlie flames from being communicated to the former ' its contents suffered heavily from smoke | and water great sheets of ice formed j on the exterior of the buildings hamper ing th work of the firemen and render j ing their task doubly dangerous family loses all i lo.^t everything mournfully an ! nounced l j meade secretary for the i great southern lumber company as be peered into his fire-wrecked flat above the one to have been the home of the bridal couple this was our second attempt at house keeping two years ag bill from the pocket of a vest in an evanston y m c a gymnasium locker last night cieared up the mystery of a series of money thefts which have agitated the y m c a members at frequent intervals during the last three months the youth was caught by means of a ruse executed by arthur b dale general secretary of the evanston y m c a mr dale refuses however to reveal the name of the culprit lie says there will be no arrest and no expulsion from the as sociation but that the young man volun tarily has placed himself on probation the purloining of pocket change began early in the autumn it kept up with annoying regularity the lockers have no keys but comblnalion locks on ac count of the time and trouble necessary to unlock them it has been the custom of members while exercising in gymnasium costumes to leave their lockers in which their street clothes hang standing open this gave the thief his opportunity secretary dale after reports began grow ing more and more frequent did a little inductive reasoning he says among the regular attendants at the gymnasium was a youth who was exceedingly fond of pool but being a high school student and de pendent on bis father's generosity for money the boy until recently did not have much cash lately he has had abundant small change this fact says mr dale together with a boast the youth made that be was an expert at picking locks aroused the secre tary's suspicions mr dale gave a marked 5 bill to herman johnson last night johnson went into the locker room at a time when the rnspect was present he ostentatiously changed the marked bill from one pocket to another the youth under suspicion observed him johnson donned gymnasium clothes and went in to exercise secluded behind a set of lockers where he could see bnt could not be seen mr dale kept watch on the locker where johnson's clothes hung in . a few minutes 4 he saw a youth put his hand into the vest pocket where the money was mr dale seized the boy the voung man clutched the bill with the telltale pen mark on it he made no resistance and no denial but confessed everything a record has been kept of the thefts re ported they total 55 mr dale went at once to the home of the young ill-doer and talked with his mother she agreed 16 hand over to mr dale this morning a sum sufficient to reimburse all the victims 20th gentury mob forces quick time captures man and waits while he is indicted and sentenced to die wii.i.iamstown ky ue 7 perhaps the ui{st unique and most orderly mob iu ' the history of kentucky was formed here j this morning and this afternoon it accom j plished its end inside of twenty minutes i one week ago mrs maggie roberts living near dryridge north of this city was 1 killed by a negro all proofs showed lhai earl thompson committed the crime the officials of the county were unable to find him then the mob was formed five hundred men band ed together and divided into four com panies each with a captain and two lieu tenants over these four companies there ruled one of the most prominent merchants in this part of the state shortly before noon they found thomp son linen the leaders turned him over to sheriff michael carter and his deputies telling them that they wanted him tried and sentenced immediately thompson was brought to the jail here and afterward taken to the courthouse for trial the mob accompanied him the judge came out and announced to the crowd from the steps of the courthouse that their man bad been indicted then the leaders told the judge the prisoner would have to be tried immediately within eight minutes the judge came back and told them thompson had been found guilty and sentenced to die then they demanded that he fix the date the judge suggested that january 7 would be a good time to hang him the mob as sented the leaders told the 500 men to right about face forward march and the mob dispersed whether or not thompson pieaded guilty is not known but the mob lenders were satisfied with knowing that . sentence had been passed they will hold the judge ac countable to see that the sentence is car ried out there is no indication to-night that it won't be finds his third comet voiuis astronomer say it can be seen through small telescope new york dec 7 zaeeheus daniel of tho class of 1908 princeton now thaw fellow in astronomy discovered a comet on monday night arid to-day telegraphed the news to the harvard observatory at cambridge this is the third comet sir daniel has discovered the other two bfr ing known as the daniel comet of june 1907 and the daniel comet of june 1909 the new comet is moving slowly almost directly ' north and is visible at nijbt through a three-inch telescope â€¢ â€¢ crucial battle in nicaragua result is in doubt one dispatch says estrada army killed 100 and cap tured 100 another gives government victory senator rayner will ask con gress to order zelaya brought to united states and tried as a slayer i i claims state department can exercise police power ovei central america by virtue of the monroe doctrine conflicting dispatches from cen tral america points on the most decisive battle of the revolution â– . ary war in nicaragua the battle was fought near rama one story credits the estrada army with routing the zelaya forces and cap turing many prisoners the other says the zelaya army won a deci sive victory both dispatches ars given port limox costa rica dec 7 a wireless message received here reports an engagement above rama between the forces of general estrada and zelay.i's army under vasquez in which the lattei was beaten leaving mac than 100 deac and wounded on the battlerleld estrada is said to have captured 100 prisoners and a lot of cannon and ammunition i the launch eagle which left here on j riunduy with thirty-live volunteers tc>r the m estrada army arrived safely at bliehelds i it ls said that the launch having i en re-j j fused a clearance j?i'.-u.ed up h.er atxaspavi j and left this port without it i a passenger from colorado eligio slb j uja states that zelnj!a"s troops entered the aragon farm where the costa ricaij i flag was flying and committed many out i rages â– . Â„ i dead float down river j about 200 dead bodies floated down tha i river after the battle of san juan del i norte it is officially announced that i chamorra b>st in the battle at san juan i twenty-one men killed and thirty-out wounded toledo has bad to withdraw his forces to a safe point some distance from ' the town on account of the heavy fire ! kept up by cbamorra's ships general castillo cbarnorra who was killed in the recent battle is a brother of the lead ing general emilia chaniorra who ls now blockading san juan del norte the gen eral's body was carried to managua by order of zelaya Â„ the government party in nicaragua iron latest ad vices appears to be in a bad way with toledo bottled up at greytown vas ! quez beaten by forno dlas above rama and the weather completely stopping him ' from making any further march it is . confidently expected that as soon as gen i eral t.'hamorrn receives the shipment of i arms looked for daily the revolutionists \ will lake hut a short time to overcome th | government forces it is reported that zelaya telegraphed i the mexican minister in san juan his da ! sire to resign and take up his residence in belgium it is also stated that ordera hava been sent to toledo and vasquez by zelaya to suspend operations until further advices states zelaya is victor new orleans la dec 7 a dl patch from managua via wireless to port i lliuon costa rica received here to-day says that general vasquez heading a part of belaya's forces has won a decided vic tory in an engagement north of rama 1 two were killed the dispatch says the righting is reported as being hand-to-hand a weekly newspaper published at man gua nicaragua dated nov 19 has just been received here containing a report of a the execution of cannon and groce tbajfl two americans by president zelaya th paper asserts that both the americans were caught in the act of trying to blolh up the steamer diamante and that thejh exploded a mine fifteen yards in front offl the vessel it says that when the men were cap 1 tured they had in their possession dyna mite fuses and machines for causing th explosions and that after a trial at fort el castillo they confessed to having s*t the mine and were shot outside the fort may try zelaya in united states i washington d c dec 7 senator rayner of maryland an authority on cod stitutional law in a few days will intro duce in the senate a joint resolution au thorizing president Taft to take all naceav sary steps for the apprehension of zelaya of nicaragua and for bringing him to trial for the killing of the two americans who were in the revolutionary army of general estrada under the terms of the proposed resolution zelaya may even be aoprehendsd and brought to the united states for trttl senator ravner will treat the killing ot cannon and groce as an international of fense constituting the crime of murder under the code of military warfare as recognized among ivillzed nations tliejcirowing of zelaya iato an american continued on 2d page 2d column f the weather m f\v3 Chicago and vicinity fair and 3\4 \ 5 continued cold wednesday and j t to thursday brisk northwest winds lw jpjj diminishing iff i fl christmas suggestion if im presents of a practical and valuable f\y f r kind â€” real estate birds or animais t y v 1 an automobile see the 1 â– / ' iff examiner tuam jlds jg the text of president taft's message will be pound on page 4